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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Squid and Misbehaving Cast Member

I believe the first photograph is for the squid seen in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I know they did put a squid in the 20K exhibit, so this may be the planning for that. Either way it is a cool photo of the model shop employees. Can anyone identify the employees?

Next up is an image from what I believe is a Spring Fling skit. Hopefully Jason from Disneyland Nomenclature is done unpacking his house and can chime in with the cast members history. The scene looks like something out of a comedy about working in an office.

10 comments:

That first photo looks more like planning for Submarine Voyage (since they had fabricate 2 new squids rather than re-use one already made for 20k). I'm unsure who the two guys are on the right, but the fellow on the left is Claude Coates.

For sure that is Coates on the left - and i agree that this is a shot for Submarine Voyage, as that model perfectly matches the working drawings of the original squid, which were done by Coates! Great pic - wish you had more!

Matterhorn - For the second picture, you're probably thinking of the "Spring Tonics" the employees put on as a way of poking fun at their work experience--but I don't think I have information that would specifically identify it. (Although the July 1957 Disneylander says, "The wind-up was with Wally Boag and the Golden Horseshoe girls in a special routine designed for Disneylanders." That could match the photo, but it could also match a lot of other things!)

The top photograph is also from a Disneylander (March 1959) and is captioned: "CLAUDE COATS, NICK RENDICH and BILL WASHO working out details of a model of the giant squid." Nick Rendich and Bill Washo worked in the Plaster Department (Staff Shop) in the 1950s; Bill's father Bud was the foreman.